Rosa is a young girl who loses his father and has to live with his stepmother Isabel; as if she was a cinderella, from that moment on you they have a very tortuous relationship in their home. A relationship of love-hatred will be born between the two women, which, like two nations interaction, will have consequences that neither could anticipate, though inevitable.

Barcelona, 1992. A historian has a conversation with a mysterious man who claims that, after the Spanish Civil War, witnessed one of the darkest episodes of Franco dictatorship. The meeting soon becomes an exchange of personal memories of that year 1940, the autumn of history.